Mary Karr Quotes
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We shred every day.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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'Why do they believe that?''Because we are hackers,' Csongor said, 'and they have seen movies.'
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A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
